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Friday, December 19, 2003

Drinking like a Dartmouth boy

Latvian man sets world record for blood alcohol level

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Posted by Ben at 8:29 PM (0 comments)

Oh well

The Olson twins are going to NYU.

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Posted by alex at 10:16 AM (0 comments)

The Annals of Inanity

Date: 17 Dec 2003 22:30:21 EST
From: Amy d. Salomon 01 (make list)
Subject: Tony Bennett...
To: Amy d. Salomon 01 (Verbose [I'll say! -- Emmett])
Bcc: Emmett M. Hogan 01
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I've been listening to his Christmas album all night while making candy cane
reindeer for my first graders and drinking too much egg nog...oy vey. This is
what happens when I leave my Harry Connick Jr. holiday album in Montreal with
my mom :) Only one crooner this year - what a shame.


Please, please, please enliven my holiday season with your updates for the
Class Notes! I would be overjoyed to hear from you. Really. And please write
SOON (I'd like to write these this weekend...)


Enjoy your holidays!


Amy

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Why is my inbox disturbed by this sort of thing?

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Posted by Emmett at 12:15 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, December 18, 2003

U of Vermont may leave ECAC

The University of Vermont announced today that it has initiated discussions that could lead to its men's and women's hockey teams leaving the ECAC for Hockey East (HEA). No timeline for official meetings or a possible vote by current HEA members have been set.

UVM's leaving would impact Dartmouth more than anyone else, as the two schools are travel partners under the current scheduling system in the conference.

No word yet from the ECAC on what they would do if UVM does in fact jump ship, be it adding a new 12th team or trying to work with the ugly scheduling of an 11 team league. Fan speculation has the conference looking at Holy Cross, Army, Quinnipiac, UConn, and Sacred Heart as possible replacements.

There is no doubt that UVM is likely a better fit for HEA, as they are currently the only public university in the ECAC. HEA currently has UNH, Maine, and UMass along with BU, BC, Providence College, Merrimack, Northeastern, and UMass-Lowell.

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Posted by Ben at 4:51 PM (0 comments)

Re: Not "Dr."

Many newspapers (incl. the Times) will only use the title "Dr." for newsmakers who specifically request it.

Yes, it is a good way to chart public figures' insecurity.

Anyway, I used "Mr." below to distinguish Prof. Blanchflower from his ex- (soon-to-be-ex?) wife, who may also be a Dr. or, for all I know, a professor.

Another interesting item: "Prof." ranks above "Dr." for the reason that most professors can be assumed to hold doctorates while not all those holding doctorates are professors.

Of course, another explanation may be that it's professors who decide this sort of thing.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:53 AM (0 comments)

According to the Valley News, Dresden plan reviewed: "A plan that would make a new middle school the center of a new village on Lyme Road is nearing approval from the town planning board."

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Posted by alex at 1:56 AM (0 comments)

Sacerdote in the Christian Science Monitor

...[D]oes living and working with other smart people really boost a student's performance? A cluster of recent studies suggest the answer is less than clear. "It's mostly been assumption up to this point," says Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College and one of a cadre of researchers trying to quantify what, if any, effect students have on one another's academic performance. "Nobody's completely nailed the question."

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Posted by alex at 1:03 AM (0 comments)

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Career Services blitz bulletin

Done at noon? Sounds like a drinkin' party

Date: 17 Dec 2003 16:03:58 -0500
From: Teresa.K.Hawko@Dartmouth.edu (Teresa K. Hawko) (make list)
Subject: Thurs noon closing
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Career Services will be closed all Thursday afternoon (after 12) for our office
holiday party.

We will reopen on Friday at 8am for your service

Happy Holidays!

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Posted by alex at 6:49 PM (0 comments)

A major Dartmouth luckily does not offer

American Studies

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Posted by alex at 6:46 PM (0 comments)

It's his last season

"We knew they were a quicker team," Dartmouth Coach Dave Faucher said. "I don't like to use the word slow, I think we're a controlled team and, overall, I thought we played very controlled."

Yeah, he called the team slow. The Indians did stick it out for a 68-65 win over Maine, starting all underclassmen, including four guards who scored in double figures.

It's Faucher's 13th and last season as head coach according to many preseason reports.

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Posted by alex at 6:10 PM (0 comments)

Not "Dr."

Not in editorial or features writing for the Wall Street Journal.

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Posted by alex at 3:34 PM (0 comments)

Re: ???

Actually, Andrew, Mr. (wouldn't it be "Dr."?) Blanchflower is best known (I know) for being a not-too-cool guy.

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Posted by Nilanjan at 2:35 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Re: ???

The case, by the way, is titled "In the Matter of David G. Blanchflower and Sian E. Blanchflower" and concerns, according to the court, "Divorce -- whether petitioner can specify adultery as fault ground for divorce when the respondent and co-respondent are of the same sex; appeal from denial of motion for interlocutory transfer."

And here is the court's opinion. The dish:
The record supports the following facts. The petitioner filed for divorce from the respondent on grounds of irreconcilable differences. He subsequently moved to amend the petition to assert the fault ground of adultery under RSA 458:7, II. Specifically, the petitioner alleged that the respondent has been involved in a "continuing adulterous affair" with the co-respondent, a woman, resulting in the irremediable breakdown of the parties� marriage. The co-respondent sought to dismiss the amended petition, contending that a homosexual relationship between two people, one of whom is married, does not constitute adultery under RSA 458:7, II. The trial court disagreed, and the co-respondent brought this appeal.

Before addressing the merits, we note this appeal is not about the status of homosexual relationships in our society or the formal recognition of homosexual unions. The narrow question before us is whether a homosexual sexual relationship between a married person and another constitutes adultery within the meaning of RSA 458:7, II.
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The plain and ordinary meaning of adultery is "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband." Webster�s Third New International Dictionary 30 (unabridged ed. 1961). Although the definition does not specifically state that the "someone" with whom one commits adultery must be of the opposite gender, it does require sexual intercourse.
...
As noted above, the concept of adultery was premised upon a specific act. To include in that concept other acts of a sexual nature, whether between heterosexuals or homosexuals, would change beyond recognition this well-established ground for divorce and likely lead to countless new marital cases alleging adultery, for strategic purposes. In any event, "it is not the function of the judiciary to provide for present needs by an extension of past legislation." Naswa Motor Inn, 144 N.H. at 92 (quotation and brackets omitted). Similarly, "we will not undertake the extraordinary step of creating legislation where none exists. Rather, matters of public policy are reserved for the legislature." In the Matter of Plaisted & Plaisted, 149 N.H. 522, 526 (2003).

The court's restraint is, I think, laudable.

BTW, Mr. Blanchflower is a professor of economics at Dartmouth and best known (I think) for his work on wages.


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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:07 PM (0 comments)

???

When a woman cheats on her husband in a lesbian affair, it isn't adultery. At least so says the New Hampshire Supreme Court in a 3-2 ruling. The court ruled that a Dartmouth College professor cannot use same-sex adultery as a ground for divorcing his wife. Adultery, the court said, takes place only when the extra-marital sexual liaison involves a man and a woman.

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Posted by alex at 3:30 PM (0 comments)

Monday, December 15, 2003

Piss-poor performance and turnout

Dartmouth loses 56-45 to UNH, shooting just 3-21 from three-point territory, to a "crowd" of 550 at the Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, which holds 11,000. There was a snowstorm, 3000 tickets were sold, and Dartmouth lives and dies by the three, but this still stinks.

Here

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Posted by alex at 6:55 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, December 14, 2003

DMS/DHMC capital campaign

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Posted by alex at 11:22 PM (0 comments)

Hockey loses heartbreaker in Maine

Dartmouth fell behind 3-0, only to rally and cut Maine's lead to 3-2. Dartmouth appeared to tie the game with Hugh Jessiman's 2nd goal of the game at 19:59 of the 3rd period, but the ref waved it off on a controversial man in the crease call. A Dartmouth player was in the crease, but was knocked in there by a Maine player.

Dartmouth falls to 4-2-4 (3-0-3) on the year. They'll finish up their 2 month, 9 game road trip between Christmas and New Year's when they travel to Burlington, VT for the Auld Lang Syne Tournament. Dartmouth will finally return home January 2nd to face travel partner Vermont.

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Posted by Ben at 12:21 AM (0 comments)

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